It's just supersition. Because the Egyptians believed in "spells"/prayers to thier gods, people thought it was curses and started thinking things like that. I think that people like that are just insecure, or maybe have anxiety disorder and need something to blame. (no offence to those who do believe that.)_________________

And I was thinking... If the Egyptians always talked about death and they thought it was a better place, then why would they curse people who entered the tombs? Then if they died they'd be in a better place, too, right?

Btu then I guess you had to be mummified to be in the Afterlife, anyways._________________-Akhenaten-

i agree that it was a big misunderstanding because why would they want to "curse" the people in the tombs. but i can understand why people thoguht that it was a curse on the poeple who robbed the tombs or opened them. but i think that they weren't curses and just spells to protect them and etc.
Ashley

I believe the Egyptians warned the Romans not to disturb the tombs thinking that Anubis or some other god would get angry. In a book I read, it said that the Egyptians thought that spirits called kefts would steal the grave robbers' souls and send the body back dumb and blind. (dumb meaning mute.) The dimwitted Romans might have thought of that as some kind of curse. (no offenve to Italians, but the Romans were mainly a war-type, not like the Greeks/Athenians.)_________________

i think that the "curse" wasjust something they put on there because they wanted to keep the pharaoh safe and make sure he/she got to the afterlife safe adn with all of her/his things that were placed in the tomb.
Ashley

Yeah. Wasn't there something there that was a statue or something that helped the pharoah see grave robbers and summon the kefts? It wasn't the eye on the side of the tomb box thingy. (I can't for the life of me remember its name._________________

It's magic bricks. They placed them at the corners of the room. It was a mud brick with a statuette on top. When the brick was made they placed a special emblem in each one. The one to the West had a faience djed-pillar, the one to the East had an unfired clay figure of Anubis, to the South a reed with a wick, resembling a torch, and to the North a Shabti-like fugure. The bricks were inscribed with excerpts from chapter 151 of the Book of the Dead, which desribed the role they played in protecting the deceased one against enimies of Osiris. Their positions provided protection from any direction.

For more information on what each little amulet meant, read "Ancient Egypt" by Lorna Oakes and Lucia Gahlin. It's pretty good. That's where I got the above information from._________________-Akhenaten-

Well, Lord Carnivon (I think that's his name) had health problems before. It must have been the climate or something. And, I think the press embelished the part of where the canary suddenly died. The press would do anything to get a good story._________________